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International Program #9 – Hand Painted Panorama

Friday 24 August 9pm

LIAF introduces its new ‘Technique Focus’ Competition screening. This year the technique to focus on chose itself. ‘Hand Painted Under Camera’ animation is a method which produces some of the most sublime animation you will experience and some of the true masters of this technique have recently released some stunning films. Hand painting thousands of oil paintings onto thousands of pieces of glass, hardboard or card is a breathtakingly painstaking way to create the 24 frames you need for every single second of film but the results often can be described as akin to breathing an invisible life into a textured surface of oil paint. On the big screen, the sheer beauty of this work and the magnitude of the effort involved in creating it will be a highlight of the festival.

Line Dance
Emily May, UK, 3'00
Enthusiastically infused with rich Latin flavours, “Line Dance” brings a special vibrancy to dark colours.

The Train
Goran Stojnic, Croatia, 8'30
The trajectory of a train and the ever changing scenery from the carriage window fuse into an ebbing & flowing collage of nature.

Paint
Nancy Parczyk, USA, 1'30
A film that unashamedly revels in the very material that it is created in.

Destiny Manifesto
Martha Colburn, USA, 8'00
Taking a different tack, this piece of commentary uses rapidly hand painted imagery to paint over photographs of bygone eras (and errors).

The Boy Who Loved The Rain
Thomas Fraser, Australia, 6’45
A love for the rain is ended by a new infatuation. Is nature the jealous type?

Urban Tale
Florence Miailhe, France, 15'30
Feel the force of every brush stroke, immerse yourself in a palette of an artist unafraid to cover the screen with big colours, follow the wild cat on it’s stroll through an urban landscape.

Jeu
Georges Schwizgebel, Switzerland, 4'00
The latest masterpiece from a filmmaker whose sense of perspective and ability to roam through an ever twisting, turning mindscape is unparalleled.

My Love
Alexander Petrov, Russia, 26'00
And from the master of oil paint on glass films comes this visual extravaganza of colour and style. Petrov’s ability to use oil paint to create oceans, cloth, moving scenery and to engender a kind of ethereal movement into his characters is awe inspiring. A kind of modern Russian fairy tale is the simplest way to explain what may be the richest, most beautifully crafted oil painted film ever made.